KOCZICZKA, Franz.Die Winter-Campagne des Graf Schlik'schen Armeekorps 1848-1849. Fine lithographed port. of Graf Schlik & one folding lithographed map. 313, [1] pp. 8vo, presentation binding of red velvet, embossed in blind & with gilt arms on each cover, a.e.g. OlmÃ¼tz: Skarnitzl, 1850. First edition of this eye-witness account by one of the participants of the winter campaign of 1848-49, commanded by Graf Franz Schlik (1789-1862), Austrian general, against the numerically superior revolutionaries in Hungary. In spite of the Hungarians' advantages, Schlik was able to win a number of battles and skirmishes. Schlik was one of the most successful Austrian generals during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Very fine copy in a red velvet presentation binding from the Wittelsbach library of the dukes and kings of Bavaria. .

[TIBETAN - MONGOLIAN MANUSCRIPT]: "DBYANGS - GSAL - BZ'UG".[A calligrapher's manual for writing the Lanydza (Ranjana) script]. Mongolia, 19th century. 1850. A manuscript giving the alphabet and ligatures of the religious Lanydza (originally Ranjana) script used for special Buddhist texts. Format: 10 x 31 cm. Lvs 9, numbered 1 - 9 in Tibetan. Comprising one "title page",16 pages of text and one page with closing text. Loose as issued within later Oriental silk cloth covered boards. The text is written in rows comprising the alphabet and ligatures of Lanydza in black ink; followed by regular Tibetan script in red ink and the transcription in Mongolian characters in black ink. First and last leaves mounted on old paper with some wear and marginal holes. Frayed at margins and a few leaves with marginal repairs. Tha Ranjana script is one of many alphabets which derived from the Brahmi script. It developed during the 11th century and was used until the mid 20th century in India and Nepal by the Newar people for religious texts. The Tibetans used this script which they call Lanydza when writing original Sanskrit texts and for writing decorative scripts in temples and in the drawings of mandalas. Many manuscripts written in Lanydza were preserved in the old monasteries of Tibet but most of them were destroyed following the Chinese take over. A charming and most unusal specimen.

[MANUSCRIPT - JAPANESE KIMONO DESIGNS]. KOSODE GOFUKUTEN:[A catalogue with 50 hand coloured designs for kimonos]. Kyoto about mid 1800's. 1850. A sample book comprising 50 different hand coloured patterns to be used for kimonos or other textiles, all rendered in exquisite and soft colours depicting landscapes, flowers and birds in a most delicate way. Numbered in old Japanese. Bound in original paper wrappers. Covers, first and last leaves affected by wormholes. With stamp of Kosode Gofukuten which is the name of a kimono store. We assume that this is a pattern book that was used at the shop Kosode Gofukuten in the mid 19 the century. On rear cover the name Tominaga Shobei and a hand written Kyoto address are added. Inside the back cover the word Misaki is crossed out, maybe it's the name of the artist (?). A rare example of a complete hand written kimono design book from the late Edo period.

John RaeNarrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 London, England: T. & W. Boone, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 247 pp. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Appendices at rear. Blind-stamped green cloth with a few nicks on the covers and along the spine. Plain endpapers are clean. Small dark blemish on back cover near spine. Light bumping to spine extremities. Smudging to bottom edge of text block. Missing the two folding maps and publisher's catalogue at rear. Tight spine. Internally clean, bright and unmarked.

Arrowsmith, H.W. and A.The House Decorator and Painter's Guide; Containing a Series of Designs for Decorating Apartments, Suited to the Various Styles of Architecture London: Thomas Kelly, 1850. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. Folio. Complete with 120 pages and 61 plates of which 25 (including the frontispiece) are hand-colored. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Quarter-leather with original marbled boards; spine label replaced. Minor wear to cover. Noted in pencil inside the front cover: "This compendium of tasteful adaptations from Greek, Roman, Arabesque, Pompeian, Gothic, Cinque Cento, Francois Premier, and Elizabethan styles was published to counter the misuse of them which was being made at that time." This book is discussed in J.R. Abbey's Life in England (page 3). The Arrowsmiths were decorators to Queen Victoria. A very attractive classic design reference has been highly sought title amongst collectors and designers.

VariousChurch In The Colonies Dioceses Of Australia And New Zealand 1843,1844 Vol II Society For Promoting Christain and Knowledge, London 1850 - Book is partially dis-bound lacking both the back strip and the front board. Pages 3-8 are detached as is the end paper, frontispience and title page. The frontispiece is a steel engraving of Port Nicholson, New Zealand. The book consists of five distinct parts: 1. Two journals of visitation to the North and South portions of his diocese by The Lord Bishop of Australia in 1843. Third edition published 1846 48pp. 2. Two journals of missionary tours in the districts of Maneroo and Moreton Bay, NSW in 1843. Third edition published 1846 44pp. Includes a new map showing the grazing districts of NSW. 3. New Zealand Part I. Letters from the Bishop to The Society for the Propagation of The Gospel together with exerts from his visitation journal from JUly 1842-Jan 1843. Third edition published 1847. Intro plus 111pp includes map of NZ which is complete but detached from the book. 4. New Zealand Part II. Journal of the Bishops visitation tour from Aug to Dec 1843 to which is prefixed an extract from a letter from the Bishop to a friend in England. Third edition. published 1847. 64pp. 5. New Zealand Part III. Journal of the Bishops visitation tour from Dec 1843-March 1844 including an account of his visit to the Southern Island. Second edition published 1846. 48pp. Internally the book is very clean with no foxing and on the FEP is the book plate of The Society For The Prorogation of The Gospel In Foreign Parts. The book is clearly in need of being rebound but is an incredibly rare survivor of early Australia/New Zealand Christian history. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Poe, Edgar AllanThe works of the late Edgar Allan Poe: with notices of his life and genius by N.P. Willis, J.R. Lowell, and R.W. Griswold. In two volumes J.S. Redfield, New York 1850 - Together with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol.3: The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Authorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays.With a sketch of the author by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. New York: Redfield, 1850. Together with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 4: Arthur Gordon Pym, &c., New York: Redfield, 1856. Together, 4 volumes, 12mo; BAL 16158, 16159, and 16161. All are first editions, all ex-James J. Hill Library, with light accession markings on the spines, and perforated stamps in the lower margins of the title pages; vol. I is first printing, in BAL's A binding in original brown cloth, front hinge cracked, lacking the engraved frontispiece; Vol. 2 is the second printing in BAL's binding variant F in original blue cloth; Vol. 3 in BAL's binding variant F in original black cloth; Vol. 4 in BAL's binding variant H in original purple cloth; shelf wear, small loss to top of spine of Vol. 4, affecting 2 letters at the top. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

"Poe, Edgar Allan""The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe: with notices of his life and genius by N.P. Willis, J.R. Lowell, and R.W. Griswold. In two volumes" New York: J.S. Redfield, 1850. "Together with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol.3: The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Authorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays...With a sketch of the author by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. New York: Redfield, 1850. Together with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 4: Arthur Gordon Pym, &c., New York: Redfield, 1856. Together, 4 volumes, 12mo; BAL 16158, 16159, and 16161. All are first editions, all ex-James J. Hill Library, with light accession markings on the spines, and perforated stamps in the lower margins of the title pages; vol. I is first printing, in BAL's A binding in original brown cloth, front hinge cracked, lacking the engraved frontispiece; Vol. 2 is the second printing in BAL's binding variant F in original blue cloth; Vol. 3 in BAL's binding variant F in original black cloth; Vol. 4 in BAL's binding variant H in original purple cloth; shelf wear, small loss to top of spine of Vol. 4, affecting 2 letters at the top. "

Bolton, Hannah.Drawing from Objects, being an Abstract of Lessons on Linear Drawing... Chiefly designed for Teachers. 8vo. London: Groombridge, 1850. 8vo, viii, 130pp. With a frontispiece, 5 plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth, upper cover titled in gilt with design, lower cover blindstamped, minor staining to upper cover, a very pleasant copy. First and only edition of this uncommon drawing manual instructing the teachers as to how to teach drawing to their pupils. The frontispiece is hand-sewn with silk threads into the image demonstrating the vanishing lines in the picture. At the end there is a printed slip tipped in advertising a set of models, a model stand, a model eye, and a case for them all, to go with the book. The front free endpaper has been neatly removed. OCLC records 8 copies in all.

[Green, Jonathan H ]CONSTITUTION AND BYE-LAWS OF THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING [caption title] New York: Brown & Eckler, 1850. 16pp. Dbd. Edges sprinkled. Very light scattered foxing. Very good plus. A extremely rare anti-gambling tract and charter for a new New York anti-gambling society. It contains a mission statement from the reformed gambler and now "General Executive Agent and Corresponding Secretary of the New York Association for the Suppression of Gambling," Jonathan H. Green, author of GAMBLING UNMASKED! and various other works proporting to tell the truth about various gambling tricks. Green lays out his seven point plan, chief among which is the formation of an Intelligence Office, "by means of which merchants, banking, insurance, and all other public institutions may learn whether persons in their employ, or with whom they have pecuniary dealings, are wasting their substance at the gaming table." He also recommends more pedestrian methods of control, such as providing advice and counsel, and petitioning state governments. Also provides the articles of the association constitution and its by-laws, as well as a list of rules and regulations for the new Intelligence Office. While all editions of this pamphlet are very scarce, this variant, with sixteen pages printed by Brown & Eckler rather than twelve by William S. Dorr, is slightly more so, with only one copy recorded by OCLC at Yale University. OCLC 887139492.

Constitution of the State of Deseret with the Journal of the Convention Which Formed It, and the Proceedings of the Legislature Consequent Thereon. Government Printing Office, Washington D. C. 1850 - Softcover pamphlet issued without wraps. Tied binding. Light soiling, moderate toning, and chipping and creasing on edges. Two small (approximately quarter inch) grooves/tears outside of the text block. Deseret was a provisional state consisting of the territority of most of the modern states of Utah and Nevada and adjacent parts of Arizona, western Colorado and five other adjacent states. The consistitution was drafted by Bringham Young and a group of elders from the LDS church. In September 1850, the Territory of Utah encompassing a smaller area was established by Congress. The provisional state was never recognized by Congress. 31st Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Miscellaneous, No. 18. Very rare. Flake 2784. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 12 pp [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]